Pete Hegseth VP: | fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It's PATHETIC. But Mike is correct, we are the only ones on the planet (on our side of the ledger) who can do this. Nobody else even close. Question is timing. | feel like now is as good a time as any, given POTUS directive to reopen shipping lanes. | think we should go; but POTUS still retains 24 hours of decision space. "’ 8:49AM ® SM As | heard it, the president was clear: green light, but we soon make clear to Egypt and Europe what we expect in return. We also need to figure out how to enforce such a requirement. EG, if Europe doesn't remunerate, then what? If the US successfully restores freedom of navigation at great cost there needs to be some further economic gain sm extracted in return. 9:35AM ® Pete Hegseth ". Agree gusam ® AR
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